Marley is someone before his time, man. He’s – he’s almost – he’s like a deity, like almost, you know what I mean?
NASI never cared for politics before Barack Obama. I never thought it mattered to people like me.
More Nas Quotes
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No one’s promised anything. You could have the biggest record on radio and sell no records.
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Working with great people makes you great; you learn a lot and it also gives you the experience and confidence to move on with your own career.
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I think the hip-hop purists are purists through and through. They’re here to criticize all of us. That’s just how it is. We as MC’s criticize each other. That’s the nature of hip-hop.
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I can’t control what people think. They know who I am.
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I just enjoy life now. I just enjoy every morning I get to wake up.
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It speaks to your livelihood and it’s not compromised. It’s blunt. It’s raw, straight off the street – from the beat to the voice to the words.
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Calling Michelle ‘Obama Barack’s baby mama?’ Tell me, is that acceptable? But the Obamas aren’t the only targets. Fox’s pattern of race-baiting and fear-mongering regularly focuses on black leaders, black institutions and ordinary black people.
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I don’t have time for the news clippings. I got my own mission.
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You can’t please everybody. You’d be crazy if you’re trying to. So take some time out to do some things for yourself.
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Even if you make mistakes, I go back to those things, my not-so-great moments because those are my truest moments; those are my human moments. I’m not even mad at the things I said that were a little dicey.
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I want to sound like an instrument. I want my voice and my words to marry the beat.
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You know, rap is sort of like a form of talking, right? So it’s like you can hear, you know, the slaves doing it.
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I definitely have plans to do more collaboration albums in the future.
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My fun is not doing the easy work. My fun is doing what’s me.
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When I say ‘hip-hop is dead,’ basically, America is dead. There is no political voice. Music is dead.
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